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May 2021 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in May 2021, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in May 2021
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2021What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 2nd May 2021In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 3rd May 2021In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 4th May 2021What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 5th May 2021Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 6th May 2021What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 7th May 2021Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 8th May 2021On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 9th May 2021Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 10th May 2021Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 11th May 2021What was the Privy Council?
- 12th May 2021What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 13th May 2021In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 14th May 2021Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 15th May 2021Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 16th May 2021What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 17th May 2021In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 18th May 2021In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 19th May 2021What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 20th May 2021What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 21st May 2021What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 22nd May 2021What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 23rd May 2021When did Germany formally reunify?
- 24th May 2021What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 25th May 2021Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 26th May 2021Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 27th May 2021What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 28th May 2021Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 29th May 2021Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 30th May 2021Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 31st May 2021Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.